The College Picks Cherries

The College’s Public Affairs office breathlessly reported that the Princeton Review gave us a high rating for Dartmouth’s quality of life.

But why didn’t Public Affairs give us Princeton Review’s other ratings, too?

Two conclusions: The College cherry picks in its reporting, and the Princeton Review is all over the map.

Addendum: An outfit called Luminosity ranked the nations’s “smartest” colleges. We came 7th overall. The elements of the ranking were then detailed by cognitive area:

Dartmouth College performed the highest on attention, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology students had the best memory, Harvard University students performed the highest on speed of processing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology students were the best problem solvers, and Yale students performed the highest on flexibility.

No explanation was given for the source of Dartmouth students’ ability to focus so well.

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